An excellent story about true friendship

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2006)

Unlike the perverted friendship depicted in the (in)famous Brokeback Mountain, the Legend of 1900 is about two men bound by true friendship and music. A man born on a transatlantic ship runs his entire life aboard, never set foot on land. He has an incredible heart and talent for music, he plays the piano without learning music. He meets another artist, a trumpeter who gets hired aboard the same ship. They become colleagues in the ship's orchestra that entertains the voyagers. A friendship that goes through years, while the piano player, who is not recorded in any official paper, never goes off the ship. A story about authentic male friendship.